Tuesday, June 28, 2011

If you've ever visited Korea during the summer months, you will experience extremely hot weather. So to encourage you to eat some Korean Summer Dishes and Desserts, here's a list of foods to cool you down:

1. Samgyetang (Chicken Ginseng Soup)

Samgyetang is a variety of guk or Korean soup, which primarily consists of a whole youngchicken and Korean ginseng.

Samgyetang is traditionally served in the summer for its supposed nutrients, which replaces those lost through excessive sweating and physical exertion during the hot summers in Korea.

This place already has a reputation in the city for having the best Samgyetang (Chicken Ginseng Soup). The soup tastes very crisp and has no peculiar smell of chicken. It is very lean and savory. The chicken meat is not so dry but chewy and soft. Jeongigui Tongdak (Whole Roasted Chicken) is roasted in salt, offering lean meat and tasty skin.

Its abundant parking lot and excellent interior make it a perfect place to entertain even foreign guests. The harmony of juicy, soft chicken, ginseng and glutinous rice creates a taste that no one can`t resist. This restaurant operates with a desire to be called the best Samgyetang place in Daegu.

This restaurant has a 55 years of history. Noodles for Pyeongyang Naengmyeon (Pyeongyang style cold buckwheat noodle) is made from 70% buckwheat and 30% sweet potato starch, and noodles for Hamheung Naengmyeon (Hamheung style cold buckwheat noodle) is made from 100% sweet potato starch. The beef broth is flavored with beef shank and beef belly along with natural flavors of green onion, garlic, ginger, and onion. It leaves a crisp and savory aftertaste. The sweet and sour Hamgeung Naengmyeon is so chewy that customers can`t put down their chopsticks until they see the bottom of the bowl.

It is a famous Pyeongyang naengmyeon restaurant. The thick meat broth is made of beef leg bone, and it is characterized by the sweet and sour taste from vinegar. This place is in the Suseong Branch of Gangsan Myeongok, and the main branch started business in 1958, which is located in the Kyodong Market of Jung-gu.

This restaurant only serves Kongguksu (Noodles in Chilled White Bean Soup) all throughout the four seasons. It had moved to different locations a couple of times but was the first restaurant to sell Kongguksu in Daegu in the past 40 years of life. The bean broth is so thick that it resembles bean porridge. Baby zuchhini shredded and stir-fried in vegetable oil to put as the topping on the soup adds a very flavory taste to the dish.

Patbingsu or patbingsoo is a very popular snack/dessert in South Korea, especially during the sweltering and humid summer season. It has become a very elaborate summer dessert, often topped with ice cream or frozen yogurt, sweetened condensed milk, fruit syrups, various fruits such as strawberries, kiwifruit, and bananas, small pieces of tteok (rice cake), chewy jelly bits, and cereal flakes.